Etymologies

(American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

From Old French reverie ("revelry"), from resver ("to dream, to rave"), of uncertain origin. Compare rave. Attested as “caper, frolic,” from 14thC; as “daydreaming” from 1657. (Wiktionary)

Examples

The bower becomes significant, then, as the externalization of this internal, unreachable environment where any kind of reverie is possible; for Kitty, under constant surveillance, the bower represents a winsome retreat that "possessed such a charm over her senses, as constantly to tranquillize her mind and quiet her spirits," a place which she believed "alone could restore her to herself" (193).

rhymes (1)

Words with the same terminal sound

Wordmap

Word visualization

Comments

But we went back to the Abbey, and sat on,So much the gathering darkness charmed: we satBut spoke not, rapt in nameless reverie,Perchance upon the future man: the wallsBlackened about us, bats wheeled, and owls whooped,And gradually the powers of the night,That range above the region of the wind,Deepening the courts of twilight broke them upThrough all the silent spaces of the worlds,Beyond all thought into the Heaven of Heavens.